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"Soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers readers the dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar. Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the...
82) Ahora y siempre
Author
Publisher
Minotauro
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Presents two novellas. "Somewhere a band Is Playing," in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and "Leviathan '99," in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt.
Ahora y siempre consiste en dos novellas cortas: En algún lugar toca una banda; y Leviatán 99.
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A must-have collection of the best short science fiction and speculative fiction of 2019, showcasing brilliant talent and examining the cultural moment we live in, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. With short works from some of the most lauded science fiction authors, as well as rising stars, this collection displays the top talent and the cutting-edge cultural moments that affect our lives, dreams, and stories. Authors include past...
84) Metatropolis
Publisher
Subterranean
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"...METAtropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers...who combined their talents to build a new urban future and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision..."--dust cover flap.
87) Miles errant
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Truth and Consequences. Miles' attempt to juggle both his identities, Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan, crashes when a new player enters the game: the brother he never knew he had, Mark Pierre. First unified edition includes Borders of Infinity, Brothers In Arms, and Mirror Dance
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
Description
In a sleepy steel-mill town, the ultimate battle between Good and Evil is about to begin. The brewing conflict draws John Ross, a Knight of the Word, to town. Nightmares tell him that an ancient horror is coming. Caught between them is Nest Freemark, a 14-year-old-girl with the gift. Now the future of humanity depends upon a man haunted by his dreams and a gifted young girl--two who will discover what survives when hope and innocence are shattered...
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Series
Publisher
NESFA Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Covers the final five years of Zelazny's career in the early 1990s, when he reached for new ideas and continued familiar themes with stories such as "Godson" and "Godson: a play in three acts", two more Wild Cards stories ("Concerto for Siren and Serotonin" and "The long sleep"), and a linked sequence of five Amber stories leading to planned but unwritten Amber novels. --Cover.
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Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year. By sending us to alternate universes and chronicling ordinary magic, introducing us to mythical beasts and talking animals, and engaging with a wide spectrum of emotion from...
Series
Aliens volume 11
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Original Sin by Michael Jan Friedman Centuries after the death of the original Ellen Ripley, her clone has joined the fight against the Alien threat. With the help of an android named Call, a brutal hired gun named Johner, and a paraplegic mechanic named Vriess, she will battle an Alien horror, and discover the answer to a question that pierces the Alien mystery to its seething acid-chamber of a heart. DNA War by Diane Carey In a bleak galaxy, the...
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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Superheroes and villains do battle over the human heart in this delightful anthology featuring all-new stories from a wide range of contributors, all set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others, created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones. An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die,...
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English
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“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. Women can’t lie or fall in love....
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